lsgreg wrote:I think he was more a product of his time. There are a lot of undertones with a lot of shows from the 50's and 60's that he kinda carried along even into the TNG. The original pilot actually had Majel as the first officer which was unheard of at the time. I keep thinking of Gene carrying on a Mad Men type office.
Not in the corner or the West my family is from.
Being a product of Hollywood had more to do with it than the era he was born into.
Agent Vinod wrote:So in what way was old rod a perv? How was his sexuality different than the one found in most males?
I really hate that mentality when taken to that extent, especially when Hollywood culture is taken as a predominant one in times past as it is now.
And I speak coming from a family who's history surrounding my maternal-grandfathers birth is shady, paternal side were "Old German" in every bit of meaning of the phrase and who's uncle from a certain messed up part of Serbia's family and it's dysfunction bordered on barbarism where the cattle were more valued than women.
ranging from Errol Flynn's exploits all the way up to Bill Cosby.
Clark Gable's supposide rape of Loretta Young too.
It's not simply that Hollywood's always been the way it's been up to this day, but that acting leans that way. It's why for God knows how long actors were held in comtempt at the lowest levels, distrusted for their gift and ease at what could otherwise be called lying until the 1920s.
